Dear Devotees,
Hare Krsna. Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada. All glories to Srila Gurudeva.
Guru Maharaja is right now in Coimbatore, India. He arrived couple of days
ago from Australia.
At present he is taking leech treatment. It is a six day treatment. Five
leeches are placed on Guru Maharaja and the leeches would suck only the bad
blood from the body. When we asked Guru Maharaja if it is very painful, he
replied saying, “Not so much.” He said it is a vedic treatment. Dhanvantari
holds leech in one of His hands. One of his wounds seem to heal faster with
this treatment. Bhakti Vinod Maharaja jokingly commented, “Guru Maharaja
already has so many (devotee) leeches around and now he has to tolerate more
of them.”
In SB 2.7.21, Dhanvantari is glorified as follows:
“The Lord in His incarnation of Dhanvantari very quickly cures the diseases
of the ever-diseased living entities simply by his fame personified, and
only because of him do the demigods achieve long lives. Thus the Personality
of Godhead becomes ever glorified. He also exacted a share from the
sacrifices, and it is he only who inaugurated the medical science or the
knowledge of medicine in the universe.”
We enquired Guru Maharaja regarding the safari this year. He said he is
thinking of going to Vrindavan, Haridhwar, Hrsikesa, Delhi, Kuruksetra. The
plan is not fully ready yet and Marici prabhu will be sending later the
actual schedule and details.
On Sunday there is initiation ceremony at Coimbatore.
Your humble servants,
Vaikunthapati Das and Ratnavali dd